Clear The Myths Related To Aids

There are many misconceptions that are associated with AIDS. Do you know that in just 25 years HIV has spread so relentlessly all over the world? The deadly disease or more properly one can say a syndrome has infected many. Around 65 million people were infected and more that 25 million people died due to this. In 2001, some leaders from 189 UN Member States recognized that AIDS has become one of the most urgent issues of both national and international development.
Overall, governments have been working and combating this problem much more actively than ever before. Indeed, most of the countries are now working together and have planned out various strategies to combat this disease.
Some countries have worked on this so effectively and have coined various practices like HIV prevention services which are HIV counseling and testing, HIV education to young people and many more things.
There is combination of treatments like antiretroviral treatments that are very effective and help in preventing and delaying AIDS and its related illnesses. However, it is known that such lifelong therapies and treatments are complex and too expensive to deliver. Government is taking various measures, but one can’t deny the fact that patient need a healthy environment to recover but disease like AIDS are considered as communicable which is not completely true and is a myth. This type of disease doesn’t transmit by hanging around or eating with the person. Several awareness campaigns have been done in the society but there is still illiteracy regarding this.
Although many countries now have made laws and regulations so that they can promote human rights in order to protect people living with HIV from discrimination; but efforts to fight with AIDS are still somewhere insufficiently based on the human rights.
In several cases the laws are not fully enforced, and it is often because there is no separate money set aside for it. Moreover, some countries have certain laws that make it even more difficult for certain vulnerable population, such as workers, injecting drug users, prisoners, and refugees to get access to treatment and prevention services.

By: Prerana Sharma
Content: https://www.greenfacts.org/en/aids/index.htm#1